When the local NFL team consistently underachieves, the paying customers eventually will exercise their right to heckle the home team.

But when that happens, there’s always a chance that a member of the home team will react.

Last year, coach Rex Ryan reacted in the heat of the moment, drawing a $75,000 fine for directing a profanity at a fan who yelled that Patriots coach Bill Belichick is better than Ryan.

This year, Ryan and the rest of the Jets kept their composure while making the walk of shame to the locker room at the half of another home drubbing by the Pats. Six day later, linebacker Bart Scott opted to shrug off the criticism by fans of pro athletes based on the fact that the fans aren’t pro athletes.

“At the end of the day, if you made it to be able to put an NFL uniform on, then you are one of the best athletes in the world,” Scott told Gary Myers of the New York Daily News. “The person yelling at you probably was picked last in dodge ball all through high school. So do you care about the opinion of them? No.”

On Thursday night, much of the abuse came from fans in the big-ticket Coaches Club area. But that didn’t surprise Scott.

“Those are the ones who feel more entitled,” Scott said. “I would love to go to his job and see what he does and sit in his ear and talk stuff.”

Actually, that could be a good idea for a post-career reality show for Scott. Non-athletes will try to do their jobs while Scott heckles them.

It would at least be more interesting than watching a game played by the 2012 Jets.

That would be nice If Bart Scott can go to one of these losers’ jobs and talk trash in their ear the whole time and see how they like it. It’s hard being under the microscope and treated like a piece of meat regardless of what the pay is.

Thomas whooped yo” a** now you wanna go at the fans who pay YOUS. this is why firestarter kev up and walked away from this circus it wad kiliing him. and bartley your the one who wanted to follow fatboy sixchin MR.obnoxious to the rotten apple, you hear so don’t go pissin and moaning now money… knock you the fu*k out!!!!!!!

Ooh I saw what you did there at the end mike, you gave a jab at the NY Jets team. Pretty clever. I have a suspicion you were one of the ones that Bart was talking about when he said “picked last for dodge ball”.

Im not aaying i support barts stance, however do you know the only difference, between Bart having to listen to unhappy fans and you? When you don’t like what us readers post negatively about you, you simply delete our posts. So on the one hand you talk about how athletes should have thicker skin, and yet you can’t handle a negative comment about yourself. Pot meet kettle.

I’m sure this will get deleted, but at least you will have to read it to delete it. I love coming to PFT, I love reading about all the good and bad the NFL has to offer, but its disappointing that there’s so much censorship on what us readers post.

This comment by Bart Scott is the most supid one i’ve ever heard. Bart, the fans yelling at you are the same who give the money to your owner to pay you stupid dumbass. So i can not vote because i’m not a politician, or i can not talk about NASA because i’m not an astronaut. Some players are so stupid.

That would be nice If Bart Scott can go to one of these losers’ jobs and talk trash in their ear the whole time and see how they like it. It’s hard being under the microscope and treated like a piece of meat regardless of what the pay is.

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I’d bet that’s almost a certainty for this clown. He just keeps going out of his way to make a fool of himself.

This is always the last cop out an athlete has when his play can’t do the talking anymore. Just a total lack of class. Never insult the fans, if he tore his ACL in week 1 of his rookie year he would never be able to afford to go to one game on that McDs pay what a chump.

There are alot of dodgeball players commenting. Scott’s right. He didn’t add that most of the hecklers are drunk too. They wouldn’t have the balls to heckle if they weren’t. These same hecklers would turn around and kiss Scoot’s ass if he gave them the time of day.

It’s always nice to see people show their true colors. That heckling fan probably put in extra hours at his job for Jets tickets to see you stink it up on the field. Yeah, to be in the NFL means you’re one of the best athlete. Doesn’t mean you’re better than the average person.

Maybe that means that I should be playing for the Jets so that I could taunt Bart Scott about how I’m the professional and he is not. Perhaps my taunt has more credibility on account of winning more games because clearly the Jets don’t have the right players.

But for real, I’d like to see Bart Scott try and figure out how to do my job, or the job of other fans. He probably wouldn’t have a clue what he’s doing for most of them.

After all he’s probably just a typical jock that flunked all of the tests unless he paid money to the smart people like this dork.

Do you want to punch me now too Bart? Or is this one of the times out of a hundred that I might be incorrectly applying the “jock is also a bully” stereotype?

Maybe Bart SHOULD go to one of the dodge ballers work place. He could see what a REAL job looks like and then he will be able to remember what a job is, because that is as close as this meathead will ever get to being employed when his football career is over, which should be in another five or six games.

Hey Scott, Mr. Pro athlete… NICE COVERAGE ON SHANE VEREEN!!! An 85 yard SWING PASS??? That was the most pathetic example of earning your pro salary I’ve seen in a while. But at least you put the paying customers in their place. BIG MAN!

“Those are the ones who feel more entitled,” Scott said. “I would love to go to his job and see what he does and sit in his ear and talk stuff.”

Somehow I just can’t see Bart sitting there talking “stuff in his ear”. I’m picturing a scenario more like Terry Tate, office linebacker. “That was a long distance call, DOUG!! Woooooooo” as Doug is thrown to the ground. I don’t know why he’s getting so upset. He should just do what Florio does. “Delete” any comments that hurt your little feelings.

Jus because you but a ticket(s) to go to a game it doesn’t give you the right to verbally abuse a player or give u the right to say whatver u want , coach etc,, cheer , booo, yell or whatever jus dont Cross that line ,

What an idioic way of thinking.
So just because somebody wasn;t born with the natural physical ability of a pro athlete they can’t judge?
Sorry but a lot of those last picked dodgeball players are a whole lot smarter than you Mr Scott and can understand when a pro athlete sucks, you don’t like it, tough, improve your game.
Also I can’t imagine Rex Ryan got picked very early at dodgeball, how does Bart feel about being told how to play football by such a none athlete. Ryan sucks as a head coach so maybe Scott should start yelling in his ear.

Here’s a guy who played next to Ray Lewis in a 3-4 defense. Lewis would draw 3 blockers allowing Scott to roam free;you or I could make tackles under those circumstances.Since being in NY, he’s done nothing but run his mouth; I suppose that happens when you go from understudy on a good team to starter on a bad team. Ether way, after the season you’ll never hear from Bart again; he’s gone!

What Bart Scott said prob wasn’t the smartest thing. Doesn’t mean he isn’t right. I go to a game and most fans are disgusting. They are fat, jersey wearing, drunk a-holes. Just because you pay a whopping $50 dollars for a ticket, it doesn’t mean you can act like your entire happiness and well being in your miserable existence hinges on your favorite team winning. If the rest of your week is adversely affected by your team losing then maybe it is time to do something to improve your life. Then you have the fans in Atlanta airport throwing eggs at the team airplane. Freaking losers.

brewcrewfan54 says:
Nov 29, 2012 12:28 AM
Me Scott is right, the fans can’t do his job. The same fans though that he’s critisizing he probably can’t do their job either. Its a two way street dick head, he just doesn’t know it yet.

I’m willing to bet anybody can do your job. These guys get paid a lot because you can’t just find some average joe to be a linebacker for the freaking NY Jets. Not exactly a fungible position. Whereas 2 million people can apply for your cubicle job.

Some of the Jets players have plenty of huff and no puff. As much as i dislike the Patriots they have a lot less huff but plenty of puff. Just go out and play some football and if you are any good then you can talk all you want its just that you might be a pro athlete Bart just not a very good one or a least not as good as you once were before the good times kicked in. Yes against the average fan no contest Bart but unfortunately for you guys you don’t play against us big boy.

I understand what Bart Scott is saying but at the end of the day, if those stadiums weren’t packed with fans, his paycheck would be as high as his IQ.

That’s what some athletes forget to think about, fans spend their hard-earned money to sit and watch them, it’s a bit unrealistic to think that when the team is playing as poorly as the Jets that they are going to sit and be quiet.

He is also the same guy & this is the same team that couldn’t get enough of the attention when they were winning. In fact never before has an a team or organization been more proud of coming up short in the Championship games.

Scott may be lourding his wealth & “status over the fans now but in a few years he will be broke & he will have lost his “status”. Then he will be begging those same fans for help.

Try being a teacher, police officer, fireman, or soldier. Their jobs are thankless, they get beat on every day, and they don’t get to say they don’t pay attention to you because you aren’t one of them.

Grow up Bart, being critiqued is part of being one of the “best” in the world. You wanted the fame now deal with it both the good and the bad.

What Bart Scott said prob wasn’t the smartest thing. Doesn’t mean he isn’t right. I go to a game and most fans are disgusting. They are fat, jersey wearing, drunk a-holes. Just because you pay a whopping $50 dollars for a ticket, it doesn’t mean you can act like your entire happiness and well being in your miserable existence hinges on your favorite team winning.
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Oh, but see, they’re *not* $50 a ticket. The section shown in the Jets video is a PSL section with seats selling for about $25,000 apiece—to say nothing of the $750/ticket price tag that you have to pay *after* you fork over your $50,000 for two seats.

Does the price really matter? OF COURSE IT MATTERS. Why? For many reasons. First, people who pay a lot of money and then don’t get what they want are naturally going to be angrier than people who threw away 50 bucks. Second,
if you’re looking to draw fans who are so obsessed that they’re willing to hand over the equivalent of a down payment on a house to watch the team, then you have to know that you’re going to get people who aren’t wrapped that tightly.